Thomas A. Berry Three years ago, Texas passed a law declaring that large social media services are “common carriers” subject to onerous regulations dictating what speech they must disseminate. The law…
Andrew Gillen Note, this post updates last month’s post. The biggest changes from last month include: Update on the lawsuits regarding the SAVE plan to reflect the court injunctions. Update…
Jeffrey Miron Bump stocks are devices that enable semi‐automatic weapons to fire faster—although still slower than—fully automatic weapons. Bump stocks became the target of legal and public scrutiny after a gunman…
Thomas A. Berry In April, President Biden signed an unprecedented law that required TikTok to either “divest” from its parent company ByteDance by January 2025 or cease operations in the…
Marc Joffe Enacting legislation and realizing its purported benefits are two very different things: a lesson now being learned by supporters of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), known…
Nicholas Anthony In the Wall Street Journal, I had a letter to the editor published on June 26 regarding the rise of electronic payments and the fall of cash. In the article…
Colleen Hroncich Like many education entrepreneurs, Hannah Holguin had a two‐pronged motivation for creating her microschool, Masterpiece Academy. A public school teacher for nine years, she was realizing that the system wasn’t…
Walter Olson The Supreme Court today narrowed the effective scope of a provision of the Sarbanes‐Oxley financial reform law under which prosecutors have charged January 6 rioters with obstructing a federal proceeding. It…
Jeffrey A. Singer Lost in all the news surrounding yesterday’s presidential debate was a disturbing report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that only 25 percent of Americans…
Walter Olson In today’s Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, the Supreme Court confronted a recurring issue in the context of mass legal settlements: Should the courts uphold individualized justice, in the form…